DIVISION 104. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 106500-119406›PART 1. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSONNEL 106500-107175›CHAPTER 4. Professional Certification 106600-107175›ARTICLE 1. Registered Environmental Health Specialists 106600-106735

§ 106635

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The requirements for registration of environmental health specialists shall be a minimum of a bachelor’s degree from a department approved educational institution or an educational institution of collegiate grade listed in the directory of accredited institutions of postsecondary education compiled by the American Council on Education, with coursework prescribed as follows:

	Basic Requirements	Experience	Training
I.	30 semester or 45 quarter basic science units including each of the following:	18 months	600 hrs.
	General Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory
General Physics Lecture and Laboratory or Organic
Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory
General Microbiology Lecture and Laboratory
General Biological Science Lecture and Laboratory
Calculus or College Algebra
II.	45 semester or 68 quarter basic science units including the following: Three of the required science courses shall include a laboratory:	one year	450 hrs.
	General Chemistry
	Organic Chemistry
	General Physics
	General Microbiology
	General Biological Science
	Calculus or College Algebra
III.	30 semester or 45 quarter basic scienceunits including each of the following:	9 months	300hrs.
	General Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory
	General Physics Lecture and Laboratory or Organic
	Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory
	General Microbiology Lecture and Laboratory
	General Biological Science Lecture and Laboratory
	Calculus or College Algebra
	plus
	Three semester or four quarter unit courses in each of the following:
	Epidemiology
	Statistics
	Public Administration or Environmental Health Adminis–tration and;
	10 semester or 15 quarter units in environmental healthscience, including one or more of the following:
	water quality, waste management, food and consumer protection, housing and institution sanitation, vector control, recreational health, air quality, milk and dairy products, occupational health, electromagnetic radiation, noise control, toxicology, soil science, or land use development.
IV.	45 semester or 68quarter basic scienceunits including the following:	6 months	200hrs.
	Three of the following required science courses shall include a laboratory:
	General Chemistry
	Organic Chemistry
	General Physics
	General Microbiology
	General Biological Science
	Calculus or College Algebra
	plus
	Three semester or four quarter unit courses in each of the following:
	Epidemiology
	Statistics
	Public Administration or Environmental Health Adminis–tration and;
	10 semester or 15 quarter units in
	Environmental Health Science, including one or more ofthe following:
	water quality, waste management, food and consumer protection, housing and institution sanitation, vector control, recreational health, air quality, milk and dairy products, occupational health, electromagnetic radiation, noise control, toxicology, soil science, or land use development.
V.	Possess a minimum ofa bachelor’s degreein environmental health from an institution approved by the committee, which includes:One year of lecture and laboratory coursework in each of the following:	Nonerequired	Nonerequired
	General Chemistry
	General Physics
	General Biological Science, and
	One semester course in:
	Calculus or College Algebra
	Organic Chemistry
	General Microbiology with Laboratory
	Public Administration or Environmental Health Adminis–tration
	Epidemiology
	StatisticsField Orientation Course in Environmental Health
	Fifteen semester units of environmental health science courses selected from: water quality, waste management, food and consumer protection, housing and institution sanitation, vector control, recreational health, air quality, milk and dairy products, occupational health, electromagnetic radiation, noise control, toxicology, soil science, or land use development.

All basic science coursework including mathematics shall be equal to that acceptable in an approved environmental health degree program.

(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)

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